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Computational Models of Reading: A Handbook (OXFORD SERIES ON COGNITIVE MODELS)

Oxford University Press, 2021

This book is about computational models of reading, or models that explain (and often simulate) the mental processes that allow us to convert the marks on a printed page into the representations that allow us to understand the contents of what we are reading. Computational Models of Reading
assumes no prior knowledge of the...

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children

Oxford University Press, 2006

"This book will be the gold standard for paediatric pallative care and deserves a place in every department of paediatrics and hospices that care for children." --IAHPC

This book is the first authoritative, systematic and comprehensive text to define the increasingly important and evolving specialty of paediatric...

The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History

Oxford University Press, 2009

The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In this fascinating book, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the...

The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

Oxford University Press, 1999

A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics...

Materials for Engineering

Woodhead Publishing, 2006

The criterion I have adopted for discussing a specific material in this book is its commercial availability, rather than its being confined to a research and development laboratory. In the ten years since the appearance of the first edition of the book, a number of such engineering materials have appeared on the market and a number of these will be...

Restorative Neurology of Spinal Cord Injury

Oxford University Press, 2011

Following injury or disease, neural circuitry can be altered to varying degrees leading to highly individualized characteristics that may or may not resemble original function. In addition, lost or partially damaged circuits and the effects of biological recovery processes coupled with learned compensatory strategies create a new neuroanatomy...

Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes

Oxford University Press, 2004

Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who grow them are faced with a life of extreme poverty or are lured by the prospect of a very...

The Art of Chinese Management: Theory, Evidence and Applications

Oxford University Press, 2002

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth empirical study of Chinese organizational design in state and private enterprises. Web-based Chinese management, a new paradigm in business studies, explains the dynamism of private Chinese enterprises and demonstrates the crucial role of micro-level organizational practices for economic...

Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping

Oxford University Press, 2002

This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping as a couple; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and concepts of privacy in China. The scandalous affair between modern China's greatest writer and his former student is revealed in their letters to each...

Chiral Pollutants: Distribution, Toxicity and Analysis by Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The chiral analysis of environmental pollutants is a fairly recent development and attracts scientists needing to investigate the toxicity of enantiomers. For example, approximately 250f agrochemicals are chiral in nature, including pesticides that are applied as their racemates in agricultural and forestry activities. To predict the exact...

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs

Oxford University Press, 2009

The late imam was the greatest political and military analyst and a great politician. Imam Khomeini was the best possible pattern for all people in all ages and eras,” declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2008.1 It is rare for a revolutionary leader to exercise such infl uence over the imagination of his successors two decades after his...

An Introduction to Orthodontics (Oxford Medical Publications)

Oxford University Press, 2001

Orthodontics is concerned with facial growth and the development of the dentition and occlusion. A solid understanding of orthodontics is an essential prerequisite to treatment planning in children and invaluable in the management of adult dentition. As a result of the speed at which clinical practice changes, a new edition of which clinical...

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